The policy also aimed to help women escape poverty by finding employment that ensured equal remuneration pursuant to International Labour Organization Convention No. 100, and to increase their participation in decision-making, which was a must for development. Thirty-three per cent of seats were now reserved for women in local legislative bodies and some 40,000 women councillors had been elected to date.
100 de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo, y aumentar su participación en la adopción de decisiones políticas, condición indispensable para el logro del desarrollo; de ahí que el 33% de los escaños en los órganos legislativos locales se haya reservado para la mujer y que 40.000 mujeres ya hayan sido elegidas.